Dive into the archives.
- Patently True
Geeked out today in the Patent and Trademark Office. Along with the exciting new iPhone developments (which did not tell me whether my new mobile device will have the black plastic or aluminum back, anticlimactically), I fooled around looking at new concepts for media delivery on various platforms and DRM solutions for their “protection.” One patent of interest was awarded on 5/6/06 for “method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming” to track audience viewing habits and deliver media based on individual patterns and preferences.There is more and more content available and people seem to be at… [more]
- Yarrr
You might be lingering in the past, thinking that while the major blockbusters are scanned, ripped and up on every free download/streaming/torrent site you could imagine, just by virtue of demand (or lack thereof), smaller independent or foreign titles are still somewhat protected from the phenomena. I recently got schooled by a young pirate who explained that, to mix a few metaphors, the long tail has snaked deep into the booty troves of “stolen media” traders. Even fairly obscure films are to be found on the file sharing servers and P2P networks trolled by the technically savvy film… [more]
- Viral Development
At the Media that Matters film festival this evening, I was chatting with some of the filmmakers about the way they approached their distribution plans early in the production process. I was interested to learn from one of the filmmakers, Ben Herson of African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal, that though the short is part of a larger project and a feature is almost complete, the original plan was really to create these bite-sized clips, produced and edited in a matter of days, and post them to every available online media outlet possible. Speculatively, one might… [more]
